sublime (v.)
- abstract
- aerate
- aerify
- aggrandize
- atomize
- bolt
- carbonate
- chlorinate
- clarify
- clear
- dignify
- distill
- distinguish
- divine
- edulcorate
- elute
- emit
- ennoble
- erect
- etherify
- etherize
- evaporate
- exhale
- extract
- filter
- filtrate
- fractionate
- fume
- fumigate
- gasify
- glorify
- good
- grave
- high
- honor
- hydrogenate
- leach
- magnify
- moving
- noble
- oxygenate
- percolate
- perfume
- purify
- rectify
- reek
- refine
- screen
- separate
- sieve
- sift
- smoke
- spiritualize
- spray
- steam
- steep
- strain
- sublimate
- try
- upright
- vaporize
- volatilize
- winnow
sublime (adj.)
- abstract
- aerial
- airy
- altitudinous
- ascending
- aspiring
- august
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- beaming
- beatific
- beatified
- big
- bighearted
- blissful
- blooming
- bright
- brilliant
- canonized
- chivalrous
- clear
- colossal
- dazzling
- devastating
- dignified
- distinguished
- divine
- dominating
- elevated
- eminent
- empyreal
- empyrean
- erect
- ethereal
- exalted
- excellent
- famous
- generous
- glamorous
- glorified
- glorious
- glowing
- godlike
- good
- gorgeous
- grand
- grave
- great
- greathearted
- handsome
- haughty
- heavenly
- heroic
- high
- high-minded
- high-pitched
- holy
- honorable
- humbling
- ideal
- idealistic
- immortal
- inspiring
- killing
- knightly
- liberal
- lifted
- lofty
- magnanimous
- magnificent
- magnified
- majestic
- mighty
- mind-boggling
- monumental
- moving
- noble
- noble-minded
- openhanded
- overlooking
- overpowering
- overwhelming
- paradisiac
- princely
- prominent
- proud
- radiant
- raised
- rampant
- ravishing
- reek
- renowned
- resplendent
- sacred
- sainted
- saintly
- sanctified
- screen
- separate
- serious
- shining
- soaring
- solemn
- sparkling
- spiring
- spiritual
- splendid
- splendiferous
- stately
- steep
- stilted
- stunning
- sublimate
- superb
- superlative
- supernal
- supreme
- topless
- topping
- towering
- transcendent
- transcendental
- try
- uplifted
- upraised
- upright
- weighty
Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,—
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
For contemplation he and valour form'd,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.
His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.
Rich in saving common-sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Schiller has the material sublime.
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest.
